The Study of Intelligence Agents

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The Study of Intelligence Agents

The study of intelligence agents has emerged as a more effective, practical alternative to artificial intelligence, or AI research. Alan Kay of Apple Computers and Nicholas Negroponte of MIT first wrote the concept of intelligence agents about in the 1970’s. Although no autonomous agents had been programmed, they envisioned them as an alternative to the development of AI. Throughout the 1950’s most engineers and scientists expected that AI research would bring about artificial personal assistants, who possessed an artificial brain that literally mimicked the nature of real human intelligence. Realizing that this may be too ambitious a goal, agent developers hoped to program more simple software that could, for example, manage schedules, purchase items, organize documents and screen phone calls without needing to emulate human brain waves. This goal for intelligence agents was outlined in a 1987 video presentation, “Knowledge Navigator” put together by Apple (Economist, 76-77).

Intelligent agents are also known as “knowledge robots”, “knowbots”, and currently just “bots.” An intelligent agent is a software program that can autonomously accomplish tasks for a person. They are equivalent to travel agents, such that they do the research and put everything together for a person. This software program is described to have a “trigger” that is built into it and when executed the agent carries out the functions. Agents can function either in the World Wide Web or on the local machine. Some agents work directly of the web, while others need to be downloaded and then function from the local drive. Most of these agents are free to use, and can easily be found on the web.

Many researcher...

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...igence agents developers are not concerned with recreating the human brain, intelligence agents may never be able to fully handle the tasks a human department manger or administrative assistant might, but perhaps for fallible humans, that is a good thing.

Works Cited

“Central Intelligence Agents,” Economist 33 (June 15, 1996): 76-77.

Etzioni, Oren, and Daniel S. Weld. “Intelligent Agents on the Internet: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast” Vol.10, No. 4; August 1995 Found in IEEE Expert

Setton, Dolly. “Invasion of the Virbots,” Forbes (September 11, 2000): 22-26.

Sloman, Aaron. “Building cognitively rich agents using the SIM agent toolkit,”

Communications of the ACM 42 (March 1999): 71-73.

Wilken, Earl. “Search agents ease information quest,” Graphic Arts Monthly 70

(October, 1998): 111-112.

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